"Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm."

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"Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm."

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"My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school."

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"The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do."

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"And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education."

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"It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio."

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